Obama essentially said: “here is a list of everything that’s wrong in the world, and (once I’m president) we’ll fix all of it, with sacrifice and brotherly love.”

Ho-kay! Spoken to a people accustomed to the 35 hour work week, the six weeks holiday, and no desire to form the sort of military that would actually be needed to contribute to all of that world-fixing, because – as we have seen – UN forces, left alone, have proved rather spectacularly ineffective. What exactly will be sacrificed by the beer and bratwust-fed audience Obama addressed today? We don’t know. All we know is that this was the “moment” that they were called on to assist in the quest for hope and change. Or something.